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The U.S. Legion of Merit was intended to recognize foreign military officers after World War II and may have been modeled on the French Legion of Honor awarded to so many American servicemen in World War I.

Instead of using Davout in the Waterloo campaign, Napoleon preferred to keep the Iron Marshal in the capital, fulfilling the three vital roles he was appointed to on April 30: minister of war, governor of Paris, and commander in chief of the national guard.

The leadership in Hanoi knew that the 1968 Tet Offensive would be a gamble but MHQ author James H. Willbanks outlines how the offensive achieved some stunning psychological successes, particularly in the opening phases.

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